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WFP Emergency Report No. 38 of 2004
World Food Programme (WFP)
September 17, 2004

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Zimbabwe

• WFP food security monitoring continued in all the provinces of the country. Focus group discussions were carried out on 16 sentinel sites in the Mashonaland provinces in the north of the country. Increasing food insecurity was noted in Rushinga, Lower Guruve and some parts of Centenary valley districts. In Masvingo province, southeast Zimbabwe, reports show that food security is better in resettled areas than in communal areas. Some major Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depots in the province are not selling cereal due to non-availability. In the traditionally dry Matabeleland province, Bulilimangwe, Lupane, Matobo and Gwanda, Tsholotsho and Nkayi districts reported low availability of food.

• Meanwhile, the state owned GMB informed the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee instituted to look into food security that it had "received 298,000 tons of maize from this year's harvest". The GMB said it expected to receive 20,000 tons per month until the end of the year. GMB also said it intends to import 140,000 tons of grain. Current GMB retail price for maize ranges from Zim$600 (USD0.10) to Zim$1,100 (USD 0.19) a kilogram.
  
  
• WFP has a program to distribute 4,000 tons of food to around 800,000 highly vulnerable people including orphans and home-based care patients during the month of September. WFP continues to monitor the food situation and remains willing to discuss with theGovernment any further support that may be needed to meet the food needs of its population.

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